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All Quiet on the Western Front: Nancy Van de Vate's Opera Gets Full, Middling New York Performance for Memorial Day
21 Sun Ra Albums Released from Archive to iTunes for His Centenary, Michael D. Anderson and Irwin Chusid Curate
Does this glut of posthumous Ra releases pose a bit of an existential dilemma for true Ra fans, then? Probably. All the same, just in time for the Sun Ra centenary, we now have 21 new album of music on iTunes. LINK: US Airways Hates Time for Three, Lang Lang Fragrance, John L. Adams's Mets, Owen Pallett Q&A, Potential Energies Ballet
"U.S. Airways is not letting us put our violins on an airplane," said Time for Three violinist Nicolas Kendall (far right) in a new video, standing next to the plane. "How many artists have to deal with this shit?"
